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Revision as of 05:30, 25 May 2024
Archive
https://archive.org/details/myyearswithgener0000unse/page/n26/mode/1up?view=theater
Chapter 1
- P17 -Duryea was the first consumer gasoline car company in the USA [1]
- Mr Durant could create but not administer
Intro
- A distinction should be made between expansion, and the organization needed to support it
- Sometimes need to build parts of org around some individuals?
- Design org to be objective, not subject to personalities
- No org is sounder than the men who run it
- Centralized in policy and decent is administration
- Intro p22 -Competition for survival as greatest incentive. Ie, getting your fucking ass kicked as an incentive? How about constructive incentives?
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0385042353/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_top?
- Read some of the reviews to see if it's worth it
- First long review shows that book didn't cover production for the nazis in WW2. Details!
- Tanks were welded in a merry-go-round system that required learning only one simple weld rather than full scale training
- Great book on scarcity economics (competition) and Gayes' pick if you were to read only one biz book